Nashville Antique Flea Market Setting up

Good Morning!
Yesterday was set up day for the dealers at the Nashville Fair Grounds for the March Flea.  Here is a picture of my canopy/ space... 1/2 of the way set up.  A few of you wrote to tell me to do a banner with my name or logo.  You are so correct as it so needs something! 
I am thinking of buying some canvas and making something, alas my art work is slim to none nowadays. 

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I set up a fantastic French Bedroom set...I so want to swap it out for my bedroom.  Laughing at myself as I did just that (a swap out) last month!   This set has the best roses and a pair of baby bird carvings on the top along with really pretty inlays.  The carvings on the bottom remind me of scalloped lace.  Huge sigh!

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NASHVILLE TN FAIR GROUNDS FLEA MARKET Feb 26th to 28th 2010

Checked the weather for this weekend in Nashville and they say the Sun will be out!  So looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend!  We are outside under the white canopy space #134 in the South end of shed 2.

Show is FEBRUARY 26th to FEBRUARY 28th. 
Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday 7am-6pm
Sunday 7am-4pm
Gary and I will be there with everything from Victorian to Vintage old Garden items, chandeliers and I hope a French Bedroom suite or two.  See you there!   Oh...FOLLOWERS OF MY BLOG receive 10% OFF.

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Congratulations to the Tennessee State Fairgrounds Flea Market for being chosen by both The Tennessee Magazine and Busy Bee Trader as the #1 FLEA MARKET in Tennessee again for 2009!

The Tennessee State Fairgrounds Flea Market is considered to be among the top ten flea markets in the country. Dealers and vendors from 30 states offer their wares to the buying public. Eager shoppers travel hundreds of miles, often by the bus load, to peruse the bargains and hard-to-find items offered for sale. You'll find a huge variety of gifts, antiques, collectibles, jewelry, arts and crafts, tools, house wares, handmade clothing, and hundreds of thousands of other items each month.

Admission: Free

Parking: $4.00 (free parking Friday's)
Overnight RV parking: $35 per night

Again...locals click to Follow me and leave a comment for 10%
Cheers,
cindykay

Nashville Antique Flea Market -Work to do

My mind is full as usual with the Nashville Tn. Fair Gounds Flea Market coming up the end of this month.  So many things to get done, let alone packing.   The show this month is February 26th to February 28th.  I usually take a lot of furniture but this time I am also taking some sweet pottery.

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I have been racking my brain trying to come up with something for that white canopy I use at the market.  Lace border along the edging?  No, as I so dislike the thought of antique lace getting dirty.  Ok...I admit Laundry is not one of my things I like to do.  So what to do??  I like unique and different from what everyone else is doing.  Huge sigh, a blank mind in just what to do! 

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I know I am taking my favorite Antique French Wire Shopping Basket with me.  Found in a wonderful old stone home up in Nasvhille that was built in the 1920's. 
I admit I have a "thing" for old baskets and use mine all the time.  I use them instead of a purse.  Holds everything I might need. 

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Antiques Reasons why we Collect them, Love them, buy and sell them.

Antiques & Vintage some Reasons why we Collect them, Love them, buy and sell them.

People collect antiques for many different reasons & there are a lot of different views as to why. Here a few of my thoughts & if you would please ….let me know why or how you started. Myself I am a combo of all of the below.

1. I find it interesting that in my store I have met a lot of people that love restoring old pieces, not so much so that they could sell it for more but simply because they gained satisfaction from doing so.  Here is a before picture and after picture that I thought was fun. A old iron & wood bench glider from the 1930’s a customer finished.  He was kind enough to send me before and after pictures. 

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From SOLDFolder

2. People wanting to furnish their home- look for antiques. Antiques of different time periods -different Era’s often look fantastic together to create a beautiful home. My home is a mixture of French, Italian and Cottage old farm painted items. And of course a main love of mine…chandeliers as to me they are the jewelry of the room.

3. Antique lovers who enjoy the chase more than anything. They enjoy searching through stores and antique shops all over the country searching for that specific or unusual item they been looking for. I love watching a couple enter my store and have the man or women call loudly across the room with excitement…honey I found it!  Myself I love the Thrill of the hunt.  That heart pounding moment when you spot something that makes your heart go pitty pat. 

4. During the fall I had the pleasure of meeting mother daughter shoppers in my store. They were into buying dressers and beds for their daughter’s collage dorm rooms. Feathering their daughters nest away from home is what I called it.  Here is one of my favorite beds I sold and I still Miss that bed. Huge sigh!

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Collecting vintage/antiques is a wonderful experience for many many reasons. What are yours?

Antique Vintage Desks * Work for Hills Chapel Antiques

Taking a break from working on my antique chandeliers and switching to work on vintage antique desks. 
This old pine roll up one I cannot decide if I want to paint or just add a wax finish to it.  I am thinking of just waxing to bring out the old pine that is so popular in the West Coast.  What do you think?  Any suggestions?

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Here is it with the roll up open with all the wonderful chubby holes.
Granted the pictures are terrible as I took on a very dim snowy grey day
in my back work room.

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Here is an old Victorian one that I took apart to re-glue the legs.  The
old paint is so wonderful! 

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Nashville Antique Store & Flea Market Work To Do this week

Huge thank you to all that posted so far on What breed of dog you think Shiloh is. I am now thinking German Sheppard and Border Collie. She loved the snow that is so rare here in Middle Tennessee. Every time I called her to come into the house…out she wanted again! Concerned me as she sat with her rump in that cold snow for hours! Brrrr!!   She has been out there for hours running around and playing! 

From Shiloh

These past two weeks I have been working on some old Garden Potting Tables that I will be taking to my store and perhaps the Nashville Fair Grounds Flea Market January 22nd to the 24th. In my old home town of Carmel Ca. I would be thinking of working in my garden. Might be too early for Middle Tennessee?



Another of my chandeliers just finished. A Czech crystal piece probably from the 1930's or 40's.  This one is on hold until Tuesday for a customer. 

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I like my canopy space at the market to be set up pretty. I am thinking of having a banner made. Good Idea? I would love to hang up some antique lace that I have …alas cannot figure out how to make them- not blow in the wind. If you set up at markets do you do anything to special? Here is a picture of a show in Atlanta GA.

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Nashville Flea Market At the Nashville Fair Grounds open 4th Weekend

Gary set up yesterday at the Nashville Flea Market.  Charlie my other partner is opening our Nashville Store today so I am heading to shop the flea market today!  A huge yippee!

Any locals that follow my blog - I will be taking Shiloh with me to the flea market for some more social training.  Give me a holler if you see us.

From Shiloh

Cheers, cindykay

Antique Farm Auction Strange Finds to fall in Love with

Do you have any strange odd, strange or super wonderful auction finds/buys? 
Here is the best thing that ever happened to me at a farm auction!

Estate auctions here in the South-quite a few of them are held on-site. Where the house, property and everything in the home is auctioned off.

One wet cold day (last spring) at a 100 year old farm estate auction, there was a very young dog running all over with excitement. You know one of those pups that are desperate to be petted/loved on.  One of those goofy pups so filled with excitement and jumping on everyone with her very icky muddy paws.  I am talking about very wet heavy clay Southern type of mud. 
Even my back side had muddy paw prints before the auction was over. 

Here she is.  She is exhausted after that long auction and the ride to her new home.  On the window seat behind my desk is where she parked herself right away.   Needless to say for the first few days we had to carry her into the house- as she was so afraid of being kicked away like her last home.  Now of course its like what me stay outside?? 

From Shiloh

Upon petting the sweetie I was horrified to feel nothing but skin and bones. She had long thick hair and you could not see the bones. The kind of starvation where you feel every bone of the back bones. Heartbreaking. Someone walked by at that moment and dropped a paper that had held their sausage biscuit.  She pounced on that grease filled paper and stated to eat the paper!   Poor baby. I travel with my own food so needless to say- my lunch went to her right away.

All though the day I watched that poor baby root through the garage cans etc.  Long story short- the farmer holding the sale said he wanted to get rid of her. She sure likes you (meaning me) "take her". I said if she is yours she is starving!! He retorted that he was not about to spend his money on feeding that dog.

Needless to say I could not leave her. My brain was saying not another dog (I already had 2 rescued dogs at home) but I followed my heart. Removed her that day (Saturday) and by Monday she was at my Vet. We thought she was about 4 months old. With my vet confirming my fears that she would not of lasted much longer.

Here she is now…almost 1 year old. A very sleek, tall leggy beauty. A real sweetheart.  Have no idea but a few guesses at to what breed of dog she is.  Border Collie mix perhaps?    In this picture she is looking up into the tree for the squirrel that drives her crazy. 

From Shiloh

Now a sleek, very longed legged beauty..her one year birthday will be this spring. 

Anyone know what breed of dog she is?